China creating solar and wind renewable energy certificates – In essence, if you create 1MWh of clean energy you will be able to sell that on a marketplace. Right now, the market is voluntary. Eventually – much like the northeast USA – manufacturers will have to pay for the right to pollute. In the short term, this drives investment in renewable energy. In the long term – the value of these certificates crash and green energy proliferates and polluters can pollute. Useful for now though.

A breakdown, by region, of module production capacity, more – The article breaks down how solar panels move through the supply chain from manufacturer through end user. More interesting to me is the breakdown of manufacturing capacity of solar panels across the world. China obviously leads – but with only 52 out of 90+GW of capacity (of course much of the volume in Malaysia, Vietnam, etc is Chinese to skip out US tariffs).

When the US industry was sucked up into large commercial entities who didn’t have the payroll of vision of the year 2000, solar manufacturing died.

Cool numbers on the system from clean, professional corporate folk – camera goes back and forth on front of cabinet a lot showing off hardware:

Leading technology types for floating offshore wind power. How big is this going to happen? We could build giant floating turbine systems off the coasts of manufacturing regions and float them to the coasts of anywhere.